Folding Forum

Hi there,

I installed Folding@Home yesterday for normal use on an everyday laptop. Yesterday, it worked fine for a few hours.

However, today my browser (normally Firefox but I have also found this to be the case with Chromium) is eating a large percentage of memory. (I know this is the case because of Windows task manager.) This never happened before, so I think the culprit is Folding@Home.

I have tried different settings (high/mid/low) for Folding@Home and I have also paused the folding process, but the high memory usage continues.

There haven't been any other changes I can think of to my laptop.

Is there anything I can do to limit CPU usage or do I need to uninstall Folding@Home to return my memory usage to "normal"?

Thanks.

Are you looking at memory (RAM) or processing (CPU) commitment?

FAH uses very little RAM but a lot of CPU processing ... approaching 100% if it's working the way it was designed. 100% compute loads are uncommon and they to generate a lot of heat and run the battery down quickly. Laptops tend to be less able to dissipate excess heat but a well designed one will turn on the fah. Do blow the dust out of the passages to improve airflow and DO NOT run your laptop on something soft (like a bed) which covers the underside where a lot of the heat goes out.

If the heat turns out to be a serious limitation, you can reduce the number of CPU threads with the power slider (or better stil with FAHControl.)

Ate you folding in the browser? If not, there is no impact of folding on your browser memory usage.